EXPERT: If You Were At Occupy Wall Street, Your Phone Was Probably Surveyed

Surveyed, as in, if it wasn't shut off, the NYPD skimmed or
"surveyed" most of your information, really your identity and all
that goes along with it, straight off your phone.

A leading privacy
blogger and working member of the American Civil
Liberties Union, Kade Ellis, recently took note of an obscure
lecture posted to YouTube more than a month ago. At less than 900
hits (at the time this was written), this video passed well
beneath the public radar.

The lecture was titled "Privacy is dead," and private
investigative expert
Steven Rambam had this to say:

"I can tell you that everybody that attended an Occupy Wall
Street protest, and didn't turn their cell phone off, or put it
-- and sometimes even if they did -- the identity of that cell
phone has been logged, and everybody who was at that
demonstration, whether they were arrested, not arrested, whether
their photos were ID'd, whether an informant pointed them out,
it's known they were there anyway. This is routine."

He referred to the practice as "routine." Ellis notes that maybe
that's what the NYPD used these TARU Surveillance
Systems for during the first OWS protests last year.

Rambam's were, consequently, in response to talk about Police
drones outfitted with technology that could easily "survey"
phones in a given area. A "survey" would effectively give users
comprehensive, real-time data on individuals, ranging from who
those individuals consort with most, to where they might like to
eat on any given Tuesday.

"But cell phones are now the little snitch in your pocket,"
said Rambam, "Cell phones tell me where you are, what you do, who
you talk to, everybody you associate with."

Which is where Rambam gets even spookier.

The government (the NYPD, NSA, etc.) is "amateur" compared to big
business, according to Rambam.